At long last I can reveal to you why I went to Canada a few months ago. I decided, rather spontaneously, to take these 2 sweaters to Kate Gilbert for their photo shoot for the first issue of Twist Collective. The issue is now live, and my patterns are available to purchase.

I hope you like [...]

This morning I took a walk in the sun to pick up a parcel. It turned out to be a rather large box, with some adorable stickers on it. If you read half as many craft blogs as I do this will look pretty familiar, it was actually seeing this skirt of Kate’s that finally [...]

Ice cream, bread, knitting and a sunny evening in the park. A shiny new iPhone means I can write this lying in the grass.

I have a few pretty big adventures planned for the next few months and the first of them is coming up fast. In a couple of weeks I’m going to Oslo with my little (actually much bigger than me 17 year old) brother. So far all we’ve really planned out is that we’re going to [...]

I took these a couple of days ago, on a little walk up Arthur’s Seat the giant mammoth that dominates the Edinburgh skyline and provides a little countryside in the centre of the city.

Back soon with more words, hopefully without another week long break.

 
I’m at work right now, which is fun since I work here, but I can’t wait to get home tonight so I can unpin this.
 
This most definitely was not one of those magical projects where everything falls perfectly into place, but I think that the problems made it better in the end. I started off wanting [...]

Much as I liked the way the edging on the cherry shawl was turning out I couldn’t knit fast enough to make this much yarn last for another 6 rows. Humph. It’s ripped back and on the needles again - I think I’m happy with it and definitely in love with the idea of blocking.

And goodbye red Gretel. I’m rather sad to set this off on its long journey, I love it so, but you’ll see it again in a little while somewhere rather exciting.

Much to my surprise, since I hate the actual number, 22 has turned out to be a rather wonderful year full of successes and adventures. [...]

I was working on one of the multiple versions of Liesl while I was staying with Amy in Toronto and she talked me into giving her a (somewhat confusing) draft of the pattern. We bought yarn together that evening at the charming Purple Purl, Amy got the Araucania Nature Cotton that I used for the [...]

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